yarn all about it
Jun. 3rd, 2024 07:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatWhen I crocheted my first large-ish blanket, it was with a pretty thick yarn (a 6 weight) and I did it all with my right hand. (I wasn't confident in swapping when I started, and by the time I was, I couldn't figure out how to make it work with the pattern.) And by the end of the project (okay, well before the end) my wrist hurt.
When I started my SECOND large-ish blanket, I figured out a plan for swapping righty to lefty before I started (hahahaha which took a BUNCH of tries on a small swatch, but was absolutely worth it). It also happened to be with a thinner (4 weight) yarn. No wrist pain. I, of course, attributed this improvement to 1) maybe my wrists are just getting stronger! and 2) doing half the work with my left hand.
But THEN (in the middle of the second blanket -- it's not done, I just wanted a different distraction) I really wanted to do something with a thick yarn, and I had a big fleecy 6 weight yarn that could pretty easily become a lap blanket (aka cat blanket!), so I started up a simple back and forth, right hand-left hand swap each row. Wrist pain returned! Clearly not all my problems have been solved, and it may have more to do with the yarn weight than I hoped.
OBVIOUSLY, the answer here is to collect more data! aka do a lot more projects, so I can see the trends! It's SCIENCE!
When I started my SECOND large-ish blanket, I figured out a plan for swapping righty to lefty before I started (hahahaha which took a BUNCH of tries on a small swatch, but was absolutely worth it). It also happened to be with a thinner (4 weight) yarn. No wrist pain. I, of course, attributed this improvement to 1) maybe my wrists are just getting stronger! and 2) doing half the work with my left hand.
But THEN (in the middle of the second blanket -- it's not done, I just wanted a different distraction) I really wanted to do something with a thick yarn, and I had a big fleecy 6 weight yarn that could pretty easily become a lap blanket (aka cat blanket!), so I started up a simple back and forth, right hand-left hand swap each row. Wrist pain returned! Clearly not all my problems have been solved, and it may have more to do with the yarn weight than I hoped.
OBVIOUSLY, the answer here is to collect more data! aka do a lot more projects, so I can see the trends! It's SCIENCE!
